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Good Awarded the Fahrney Medal Mary L. Good has received the Delmer S. Fahrney Medal in recognition of her distinguished career in education, research, and industrial research management. The medal, sponsored by the Franklin Institute, was established in 1975 to recognize an individual who has demonstrated outstanding leadership in science. Good, president of Engineered Materials Research, Allied-Signal, Inc., is a past chairman of the board and president of the American Chemical Society. She is well known for her extensive work in the development of catalysts, and she fostered the "materials-by-design" approach to chemical research that is currently being applied to materials for NASA's space station energy storage systems. This approach eliminates the trial-and-error attempts previously used to develop new materials and has been used in Good's laboratories to produce highly effective catalysts. Good received a B.S. degree from Arkansas State Teachers' College in 1950 and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Arkansas in 1953 and 1955, respectively. She was on the faculties of Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge and the University of New Orleans until 1980. Her 1981 appointment as vice-president and director of research at UOP, Inc. marked the beginning of her industrial career. In 1986 she was promoted to her current position at Allied-Signal, Inc. Good has received numerous awards and honors, including the ACS Garvan Medal (1973), the Industrial Scientist of the Year Award (1982), the American Institute of Chemists Gold Medal (1983), and several honorary degrees.
Nominations Sought for Dimick Award Nominations are being solicited for the 1989 Keene P. Dimick Award in Chromatography. The award is sponsored by Dimick, an accomplished analytical chromatographer who developed the first commercial gas chromatograph, the Varian Aerograph. The 1988 award was given to Milton Lee of Brigham Young University. Consisting of $5000 and a plaque, the award will be presented at a special symposium at the 1989 Pittsburgh Conference and Exposition in Atlanta, Ga. Nominating packages consisting of two letters of recommendation and a curriculum vitae must be submitted by June 15,1988, to Stephen Weber, Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pa. 15260 (412-624-8520).
Amato and Belton Join the ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY Staff Ivan A. Amato and Keith B. Belton have joined the staff
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be involved with the A-page section of the JOURNAL and with the peer review process for technical papers. Amato comes to the JOURNAL from the ACS Department of Public Communications, where he was a staff writer. He previously worked as a science writer intern for Science News. Amato received a B.A. degree in chemistry from Rutgers University in 1983 and an M.A. degree in the history and philosophy of science from Indiana University in 1986. He has also been a freelance writer for several newsletters and the Washington Post.
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Belton received a B.S. degree in chemistry from the University of Maryland in 1985 before joining the ACS Books Department as an editorial assistant. In 1987 he was promoted to assistant editor and was responsible for copy editing, indexing, and overseeing the review process of technical books. Belton is currently working on an M.S. degree in environmental science at George Washington University.
For Your Information A new prototype computerized information system, materials information for science and technology (MIST), has been developed by researchers at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory's (LBL) Information and Computing Sciences Division. The system is designed to improve accessibility of scientific data on the properties of metallic alloys. The development of MIST is part of a joint effort by the Department of Energy and the National Bureau of Standards to increase scientific and engineering productivity through better dissemination of research data. According to John McCarthy of LBL, "Major strides have been made during the past three decades to help scientists and engineers keep up with the data explosion." For further information, contact the Public Information Department, LBL, 1 Cyclotron Rd., Berkeley, Calif. 94720 (415-486-5771). Erich Bloch, director of the National Science Foundation, announced that the NSF budget request for fiscal year 1989 is $2.05 billion, more than 19% above the 1988 fiscal year appropriation of $1.72 billion. According to Bloch, "For the last three years, there has been no real growth for the research activities of the NSF. Our competitors are challenging, and in some cases, catching up with, the U.S. in basic research, technology, and science and engineering education." If enacted, the 1989 budget will help the United States maintain its lead in these areas. The 1989 budget will focus on education and human resources, disciplinary research programs and supporting facilities, and science and technology centers and groups. ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY, VOL. 60, NO. 8, APRIL 15, 1988 · 499 A
